Killing parrots with cookies is so weird

First off, cookies are such are bad food item that I would guess that a large percentage of the player base never bother to craft them apart for the eat all food achievement.

Second of all, who would try to feed a cookie to an animal? Has anyone right clicked a chicken with a pork chop?

So two very rare things stacked makes it an unlikely event yet they still deliberately added it to the game.

That is so weird. Why not just do nothing instead? That's what happens will all the other mobs. By having a mechanic they are encouraging people to do it.

"But it harms them in real life" - Dogs can die from chocolate in real life too but they didn't add that.

When someone at Mojang goes on a killing spree the media is going to say "You know it all started when he added cookies killing parrots to Minecraft".

Such a weird and unnecessary choice to deliberately add to the game.